This book analyzes the impacts that family control of firms has on capital structure choices, leverage and the risk of financial distress, earnings management practices, and the relation between accounting choices and firm market value. For these purposes, longitudinal data on Italian family and...

Corporate failures and accounting scandals had shaken the foundations of investors’ confidence in the transparency, integrity and accountability of corporations and financial markets. There had also been public disquiet about the role of professional auditors and audit firms, who had been...

PART 1: The port structure: Managerial and operational issues -- Chapter 1: Port governance models and their historical development -- Chapter 2: Institutions, port planning and finance -- PART 2: National port systems vis à vis global shipping -- Chapter 3: Port Finance and Regulation in Kenya...

This edited volume focuses specifically on the theme of financial innovation and how financial resiliency was achieved in Naples. To highlight both the achievements of the public banks of Naples and their lessons for financial resiliency, the book focuses on financial crises and how they were...

Chapter 1: Valuation Overview -- Chapter 2: Basics of bond valuation -- Chapter 3: Option valuation -- Chapter 4: Other financial instruments -- Chapter 5: Business Valuation -- Chapter 6: Property Valuation -- Chapter 7: Introduction to intangibles valuation -- Chapter 8: Purchase price...

Die Reformierung der Leasingbilanzierung gemäß IFRS 16 wird erhebliche Auswirkungen auf die bilanzielle Abbildung von Leasingverhältnissen in IFRS-Abschlüssen haben. Dabei werden künftig grundsätzlich alle wesentlichen Leasingverhältnisse in den Bilanzen von Leasingnehmern durch...

Die Rechnungslegung von Bistümern im Wandel -- Die Vergleichbarkeit der Jahresabschlüsse von Bistümern -- Die Gliederung des Jahresabschlusses von Bistümern -- Die Durchführung von Inventuren -- Bewertung von Grundstücken und Gebäuden -- Bewertung von Kirchen -- Bewertung von...